Peabody Veterans Memorial High School - Meta Yearbook (Peabody, MA)

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®etritation= Sima 15. Carroll NLY by total proficiency brought to fruition by constant, lasting effort and sincerity can one attain true excellence. Through excellence does one gain admiration. Miss Anna B. Carroll, whose unassuming yet truly interested attitude has affected a vast number of this graduating class, may be counted among the elite of the teaching profession. So, it is with the greatest sense of pride and honor that this class dedicate its yearbook, the Meta of nineteen hundred and sixty- five.

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(fanimr Sat Utrtfma Alas (Strutt 0tii?0 mtttQS tn Btrruijilj Jforetoorb S four years of difficulty and ease; sadness and joy; gravity and levity, spin rapidly toward memory, leaving the tangible world forever, we are immediately driven to the begin- ning of a seemingly interminable, unpaved, untrodden highway. Not a streetlamp is visible, nor a sign post nor any verdant foliage — not a sound can be heard. The vast population seems a fantasy as we are encompassed by nothing but solemn deso- lation. The road winds gradually uphill, ribboning farther away, farther until merely an infinite horizon is manifest, a horizon which seems to yearn for a conquerer. And conquer it we must if we are to attain satisfaction — We, as sole engineers must build the path ahead, for we dare not relinquish our seat on the council of intelligent participation in the world community. Each even batch of mortar spread, each tree planted by the roadside gives us an added sense of fulfillment. We gradu- ally learn to cope with all impediments, strange faces and spirit- ual upheavals. There is no point to slothful production because we all want to enjoy life and only a useful and constructive one can be enjoyed. Too quickly do the milestones turn to headstones. The past must be rarely considered, but for short moments of ecstacy; the present must be wisely improved; we must go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with strong hearts. But as we toil and sweat, laugh and cry, let us build our- selves a stool, have a seat, wipe our brows and take that ecstatic jaunt backwards as we turn the pages of this book — the META of nineteen hundred sixty-five.

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FACULTY PRINCIPAL Arthur J. Barry VICE-PRINCIPAL Arthur V. Johnson ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Thomas J. Callahan. Head Edward Cronin Edward T. Donahue D. Edward Gorman Linda M. Hilton Josephine Hosman Virginia P. Kiley Richard G. Makela Nathan E. Masterson James M. Meagher Cornelia E. Sheehan William Storey LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT Marquerite L. Murphy, Head Georgia E. Royle Robert P. Cavanaugh Elizabeth B. Fitzgerald Blanche A. Langlois R. Dorothy Lee John H. McDonald SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT William J. Bresnahan, Head James E. Arnold John E. Bezemes William F. Cronin Leo F. Espindle James H. Greehy Mary A. McNamara Catherine A. Murphy Thomas J. O’Donnell Timothy B. Roche Paul Ruelle John E. Sullivan MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Thomas F. McCarthy, Head Helen A. Caron Ann B. Carroll Plato G. Chambers Carlyle E. Drew Roy G. Faria Chrisoula Fillis Frances McLaughlin BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Augustus P. Macione, Head Richard S. Codair Henry A. Eager Mary E. Luz Kaellen McHugh Judith G. Pierce Mary E. Sullivan VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENT Kenneth Briggs. Head Salvatore Causi Joseph P. Howard Lawrence Kohut Peter LaCortiglia Bruno Pierotti GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT Mary A. Sweeney, Director Jessie B. Costello James L. McDonald Irene M. O’Keefe Ann V. O’Neill Mary M. Tocken SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Henry A. Sullivan. Head Arthur Adamopoulos Brian M. Carr Marie F. Fennessey Sally Ann Freedman Roger Massero Mary Anne Nally Edward L. O’Connor Arthur Peretzian OTHERS Edward J. Carey, Art Department Head Ruth M. Conley, Administration Office Jennie J. Zavadsky, Administration Office Dr. Charles IL Murphy, Hand Director Edward M. Brawley, Distributive Education Thomas P. Flynn. Distributive Education Thomas Thorpe, Fireman Eleanor R. Pierce, Nurse Helen M. O ' Keefe, Home Economics A. Ellen Donahue. Developmental Reading David P. Collins, Librarian CUSTODIANS Charles O’Shea. Head Eleanor Chenery Frank Chenery Walter Gill James Leonard Michael Walsh